Senior Backend Engineer

Karma is engineering for the future, fighting food waste through technology. We are growing fast, scaling our business, our teams, and most importantly: our impact. We are on a path to revolutionising the food industry, and we need your help to get there.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at Karma you will take an important role in helping build the backend services and architecture that support the web and mobile app clients that our users see every day. We have a multitude of interesting problems for you to solve.

We are still in the early stages of our journey and things you build here will have tremendous impact on our business, our tech and Karma as a company. You will be working closely with your cross functional team, our internal stakeholders and, especially, our users.

Design and build server-side applications and systems architecture, always improving the experience for our users, customers and employees. You continuously aim to increase efficiency, stability and scalability in the platform, while also acting as a role model for the team, helping making technical choices and taking responsibility for the team delivering new features and innovations in a timely manner.

You

have previous experience working in a high load system

are a good communicator (written and verbal)

take pride in and responsibility for, your work

are empathetic for both colleagues and customers

are a curious and quick learner

The bottom line

We are 60+ passionate, diverse, fun-loving and data-driven people. Our sun-lit office at the Central station in Stockholm has high ceilings (both literally and metaphorically). We are humble, embracing differences, and have a strict “no assholes” policy.

We expect you to be challenged by, engaged in, and enthusiastic for your work, every day. We will always value finding the right person before experience.

Department

Stockholm

Perks & Benefits

Yeah that's right, we ditched the ping-pong table and built a nice (but small) gym that's free to use for all employees!

Wednesday Breakfasts

Every Wednesday morning we gather to share stories and a cup of coffee (or two)

Karmazing Friday

We work hard but we also play hard. First Friday every month we put in serious effort to make sure we celebrate our success!

Great tech gear

Everyone at Karma gets a new Apple MacBook Pro + everything needed to get your work done while also looking dapper

Our Culture

We love to accomplish goals together, celebrate our victories, support one another, gather for breakfast, hold events for friends and family, play games and have the occasional beer or two! We want to foster a karmazing atmosphere!

About Karma

Karma is an app that connects restaurants, cafés and grocery stores with users eager to purchase unsold food at a lower price. For users, the app is an easy way to eat well, save money, and protect the planet. For retailers, uploading surplus food to Karma is an opportunity to reduce food waste, reach new customers and market through a new channel. It’s a win-win!

Karma is fighting food waste globally and leading the shift towards a more sustainable society by offering a user friendly platform to both users and retailers, making it rewarding to rescue food. Great food shouldn’t be wasted!